40 Love, Madeleine Wickham
40 Love, Madeleine Wickham
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40 Love
A Novel

Author: Madeleine Wickham

Narrator: Katherine Kellgren

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/30/2011


Synopsis

From the author of the sensational bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels and the New York Times bestsellers The Wedding Girl and Sleeping Arrangements, this perceptive comedy 40 Love skewers the shallow rich, displaying a wicked backhand along the way.

Everyone wins this game of literary tennis, a comedy of manners about envy in which Madeleine Wickham skewers the nouveau riche. At their country estate, Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace, it seems obvious who among them is succeeding, and who is falling behind. But by the end of the party, nothing will be quite as certain. While the couples' children amuse themselves with pony rides and rehearsals for a play, the adults suffer a series of personal revelations and crises.

Wickham's nonstop action reveals at every turn that matters may not be as they seem, and in the end one thing is crystal clear: the weekend is about anything but tennis.

About Madeleine Wickham

Madeleine Wickham is the author of several acclaimed novels, including A Desirable Residence, Cocktails for Three, Sleeping Arrangements and The Wedding Girl. As Sophie Kinsella, she has written a number of bestsellers including the Shopaholic series, Twenties Girl, Remember Me?, The Undomestic Goddess, and Can You Keep a Secret? Confessions of a Shopaholic was made into a major motion picture starring Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy. Born in London, Wickham studied at New College, Oxford. She lives in London with her husband and family.

About Katherine Kellgren

Katherine Kellgren has recorded over 200 audiobooks and won four Audie Awards, three ALA Odyssey Honors, and eight AudioFile Earphones Awards. In 2011, Kellgren was named the  Best Voice in Young Adult & Fantasy, and she won the Audie award for Best Female Narrator in both 2013 and 2014.  Kellgren has also appeared onstage in London, New York and Frankfurt. She has recorded numerous plays and dramatizations of novels for the radio, including winners of the Peabody Award. She is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In naming Kellgren a “Golden Voice,” AudioFile magazine noted that she is a "marvel with accents...she is definitely a narrator to keep an ear out for." She lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mallory on June 22, 2024

Based on reading/enjoying Sophie Kinsella books I think I was expecting this to be as funny and enjoyable as those. This was less rom-com and more snarky rich people drama and I did not really enjoy it. To make it worse I hated every adult character and the children were rarely in the book (although......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on October 21, 2011

Oh Madeleine Wickham, how you continue to disappoint me, even as your pseudonym generally leaves me happy. While "Sophie Kinsella" epitomizes all that is right with chick lit--the frothy story lines, the witty one-liners, the pratfalls, the likable naivete of the main characters--in her books, Madel......more

Goodreads review by Elle G. Reads on December 11, 2016

Too confusing and hard to follow. Normally I LOVE Sophie Kinsella's novels, but this one just did not work for me.......more

Goodreads review by Luanne on October 23, 2011

The name Sophie Kinsella is immediately recognizable as the author of the hugely successful Shopaholic chick lit series. How about the name Madeleine Wickham? No? Well, they're one and the same. The Tennis Party, originally published in 1995, was Wickham's first book. It has been re-released in North......more

Goodreads review by James on June 21, 2015

Paper-thin characters, stereotypes abound (The good, poor mother! The shady salesman! The rich bitch!) and a banal plot. Thank God this was a quick, easy read, otherwise it would have been pure torture to sit through.......more


Quotes

“Wickham aces the shallow rich...in this light, fast-paced novel.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“This featherweight comedy delivers a decided satisfaction.” —Kirkus